Tagline: Same planet. Different world. When a group of kids find Jules Verne’s original manuscript for his book “Journey to the Center of the Earth,” they discover that he actually took the trip himself, and using the manuscript as a map, they follow his course into the earth’s core. In this update of Jules Verne’s…
Category: Action and Adventures
Jumper (2008)
Tagline: Anywhere is possible. A genetic anomaly allows a young man to teleport himself anywhere. He discovers this gift has existed for centuries and finds himself in a war that has been raging for thousands of years between “Jumpers” and those who have sworn to kill them. The science fiction thriller leaps into a new…
Max Payne (2008)
After the murders of his partner and family, maverick cop Max Payne (Mark Wahlberg) becomes a man hell-bent on revenge. Teamed with the beautiful but deadly Russian mobster Mona Sax (Mila Kunis), Max journeys into a dark underworld to find the truth, but forces both real and supernatural align against him, determined to silence Max…
Meet the Spartans (2008)
Tagline: The bigger the hit, the harder they fall. When Xerxes (Ken Davitian), the evil God King of Persia, sends his massive army to Sparta, King Leonidas (Sean Maguire) and thirteen strapping warriors rise up to defend their homeland. Leonidas, Captain (Kevin Sorbo) and the rest face down dancing Persians, bad punch-lines and celebrity look-a-likes….
Mongol (2008)
Tagline: Greatness comes to those who take it. The story recounts the early life of Genghis Khan who was a slave before going on to conquer half the world including Russia in 1206. Based on leading scholarly accounts and written by Bodrov and Arif Aliyev, “Mongol” delves into the dramatic and harrowing early years of…
The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (2008)
The blockbuster global “Mummy” franchise takes a spellbinding turn as the action shifts to Asia for the next chapter in the adventure series, “The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor.” Brendan Fraser returns as explorer Rick O’Connell to combat the resurrected Han Emperor (Jet Li) in an epic that races from the catacombs of ancient…